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TIL in USA, picking up an eagle feather that you found can end you up in jail with thousands of dollars in fines

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gr9OX TIL in the 1980’s a Japanese humanitarian doctor in Afghanistan named Tetsu Nakamura who initiated the digging of the Pearl Canal which connects to the Kumar River. The canal supplied fresh water to over 600,000 people.
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EGgd TIL for the first Moon landing, the average age of NASA controllers was 26 years old.
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